Alessandra Galiè

Alessandra Galiè

Team leader: Gender

Alessandra Galiè is the Team Leader: Gender at ILRI. She conducts research on gender in livestock value chains with a focus on gender analysis in genetics, empowerment and nutrition and food security. Before joining ILRI she worked at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) on gendered empowerment, seed governance and participatory plant breeding. She also worked in the NGO sector. She holds a PhD from Wageningen University and an MA in social anthropology of development from the University of London.

My Projects

Jan 2019Dec 2022

Women in business: chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania

Methods Study of existing breed dissemination pathways; develop and test women-led business models to disseminate chicks to farmers in remote areas; engage in gender responsive and transformative approaches; assess impact on women’s empowerment and on nutrition. Expected impact Women’s empowerment...

Mar 2019Jun 2022

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Testing innovative approaches to vaccine delivery This project will test two innovative approaches for vaccine delivery — one gender accommodative and one gender transformative — by adapting CARE’s Gender Transformative Farmer Field and Business School approach to facilitating women’s sustained...

Feb 2019Mar 2020

Gender at scale (Exploring ‘feminization’ of agriculture through gender dynamics across scales in East Africa)

Feminization of agriculture is a measurable increase of women's participation in the agricultural sector. It is a phenomenon common to many countries particularly in the developing world. Studying the feminization of agriculture with a gender lens is important to understand its prevalence and how...

Empowering women through livestock

Research in this area documents and analyses the importance of livestock to poor women, and identifies gender-related constraints to owning livestock, accessing improved technologies and services, and participating in and benefiting from livestock value chains. The team works with other research...

My publications

Journal Article

Published2021

Strategies to upgrade animal health delivery in village poultry systems: Perspectives of stakeholders from northern Ghana and central zones in Tanzania

Manual

Published2021

Gender capacity development: Guidelines for trainers

Journal Article

Published2021

Intra-household handling and consumption dynamics of milk in peri-urban informal markets in Tanzania and Kenya: A gender lens

Book Chapter

Published2020

International Livestock Research Institute

Alessandra Galiè

Alessandra Galiè

Alessandra Galiè

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My Projects

Women in business: chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Gender at scale (Exploring ‘feminization’ of agriculture through gender dynamics across scales in East Africa)

Empowering women through livestock

My publications

Empowering women in dairy cooperatives in Bihar and Telangana, India: A gender and caste analysis

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock Gender Strategy: Delivering livestock solutions that benefit men and women

Nutrition, social and behaviour change strategy for dairy development programs in western and southeastern Kenya

The effect of membership in producer organizations on women's empowerment: Evidence from Kenya

Strategies to upgrade animal health delivery in village poultry systems: Perspectives of stakeholders from northern Ghana and central zones in Tanzania

Gender capacity development: Guidelines for trainers

Intra-household handling and consumption dynamics of milk in peri-urban informal markets in Tanzania and Kenya: A gender lens

The impact of ILRI research on gender

Improving animal health services to village poultry production systems in Ghana and Tanzania

Gender dynamics in seed systems development

A scoping review of market links between value chain actors and small-scale producers in developing regions

Expanding use of the Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI)